I'd like to see DVD format go ahead and die already as it has ovestayed its welcome by some 10 years, in my opinion
While I see your point from a A/V quality point of view, I absolutely refuse to spend any money on pre-recorded blu-ray media. The reason is copy protection. If I am not allowed to do with this media whatever is convenient to me and the few rights I do have as a consumer can be taken away at any moment for any reason, I simply refuse to take part in this. DVD is "open" in the sense that if I buy a DVD, I can copy it to my NAS and "own" the movie. Streaming services are even worse but the fact that they produce exclusive shows that other people in my household want to watch makes them much, much harder to avoid. I still do try, though I do begin to wonder if it's futile. The general masses love convenience and choice more than they value their own rights and freedoms.
FYI, BluRay discs can be ripped if you know what you’re doing.
There was once a time when DVDs could only be played with official, authorized hardware and software players and digital ripping was impossible. It took three years before the CSS was cracked, and that’s only because DVDs used a weak form of 40-bit encryption, which even in 1999 could be brute forced fairly quickly.
Despite that, it still took until 2007 or so before it became space efficient and fast to rip and store DVDs, due mainly to software like Handbrake making it easy to transcode several gigs of MPEG-2 data into less than 1GB of MPEG-4 or H.264 video. By 2010 you could buy 2TB drives, so you didn’t even *need* to transcode the DVDs you ripped; you could literally copy the entire VIDEO_TS folder and have access to menus and special content, if you wanted to.
Hell, with Netflix’s 5 DVD plan, a 10TB NAS system (in RAID1 for redundancy) and about a year’s time, you could have just about every episode of every TV series you want stored away, your own local streaming service. Not that I’d recommend anyone do this, of course.
That’s the main issue with ripping a BD, storage space. It’s still not quite practical, unless you can throw some serious money into a NAS setup. You’d need hundreds of TB of online storage for any practical collection of 4k content (there’s no better, smaller format to transcode to, like there was with DVD ten years ago, for example).